{IcE CrEaM}

Ah to be a kid again! I remember what a treat it always was to go down to the Arctic Circle and get an Ice Cream cone. I make it a point to take my kids down to the "Santaqueen" at least once a week for ice cream! "I-keem" as Ashton calls it.

Their freckles are finally appearing, and they are so stinkin' sweet! Jared has a freckle on his hand and I guess he has never noticed it before now but he was freaking out the other day thinking it was dirt "Get it off! Get it off!" So sweet and so innocent!

{tHrOuGh My LEnSe}

You can't say no to those eyes. WEll, I struggle to anyways.

I am so blessed. Every moment of every day. I am blessed with two little spirits to love. What a lucky girl I am.

{EaStEr}

Easter turned out to be really fun. Thursday night we went up to my parents house and had an early easter. The boys hunted for their easter baskets and ate tons of candy. We had so much fun. The next day we played at the park with my mom and then went home. Saturday my brother surprised me with coming over and we colored eggs and hung out. Jared got to sleep over at their house and Sunday we had dinner over there and watched a movie. I was so worried we would end up alone for easter. I am so grateful for family.

NOTE: none of these eggs were edible, I guess I didn't boil them long enough! GAK!

Sweet miss Dani and her beautiful creation

Crazy Marissa

Who needs egg dippers when you have two hands, right?

MAX!!!

Yes! Someone to rough house with them!! I try but they are too rough with me.

MAX!!

I love swinging. It is like I can just let go of everything. All the stress, worry, just flows away as I just smile, and feel free as a bird. Sounds really really cheesy and gay, but seriously. Seriously. :)

{IdOl ReCaP}

The magazine that I did the David Osmond pictures for is out! You can read it here:

http://www.elanwoman.com/story5.htm

Kids say the darndest things!

March 2010

Mommy to Ashton regarding his mo-hawk: "these types of haircuts are called 'mo-hawks'"

Jared to Mommy while patting his spiky hair: "Yeah and mine are called 'jaredhawkes'"

{It iS A ZoO OuT ThErE!}

I woke up this morning and said to myself "Today we should go to the zoo." It was the perfect day. The temperature was perfect...PERFECT!

"Ya comin' mom?"

" GIRAFFE!!!"

Jared inside of the eggshell

The $3 popsicle

The result of the $3 popsicle

I recall hitting my 6 year old head on those teeth once upon a time...ah memories!

As we were passing by the carousel I had a streak of fear go through me knowing that if the boys saw it there would be no "passing by". I tried to hurry but they both saw it. My thoughts were something between terror of trying to hold two energetic toddlers onto two giant elevating fiberglass creatures and horror of trying to pull them off when the ride is over( I won't go into what happened at Toys R US last week with the tantrums and the pulling down of Mommy's pants) But as I looked down at Jared's sweet pleading face and the words "BUT MOM, this is the best day ever!" came out of his mouth, I just knew that the "best day ever" just wouldn't be without the carousel. So I bravely marched over and paid SIX BUCKS for tickets and let my two little ANGELS pull me onto the platform. I would have been fine with sitting in one of the benchseats aboard the ride, but no...that would not be. So, after walking around the platform about 12 times, we FINALLY found two accaptable animals right next to each other. These photos are BEFORE the ride started. I wouldn't have dared to take a picture while it was moving, Ashton was scaring the crap out of me!! He tried to get off a few times, he wanted the giraffe, not the lioness! What was I thinking?

And JAred was so funny when the ride started, he was yelling "wa-cha! wa-cha! Go Monkey go!" I think I actually teared up for a moment, relishing in the joy that my children were having, knowing that all too soon I will be looking back on that moment thinking how lucky I was to have so many special experiences with my boys.

I think Ashton speaks parsel-tongue...this rattler stared at him for like 8 minutes.

We waited in line for the train for quite a while, being braver now that I had face my fear of being responsible for two kids on a moving object. Ashton was very proud of his train ticket.

And to top it all off, a picture with me in it!! That is a rare occasion indeed. I am so proud of this picture of me and my popsicle faced boys!

{DiNo MaNiA}

Saturday I took the boys to the Dinosaur Exhibit at Thanksgiving Point. They LOVED it.

This was their favorite, the sand bar. Anything with water and sand and messy dirtiness, they are SO there.

Dude, check out the guy in the red trenchcoat! They only come out at night...or in this case the middle of the day LOL

Next time we will go to the aquarium....Jared was rather upset by the fact that the fish were "sleeping"